How to Edit a Podcast with Adobe AuditionIn this tutorial I will walk you through editing a podcast in Adobe Audition and my general podcast editing workflow. Adding Music, Sound Effects, Fades and Volume Adjustment in Adobe Audition. This tutorial will show you how to import audio assets and use them in your podcast. We will also go over how to fade in and out and adjust audio levels of different clip segments. Arrange and edit multitrack clips with Audition; Looping clips; How to match, fade, and mix clip volume with Audition; Automating mixes with envelopes; Multitrack clip stretching; Video and surround sound. Working with video applications; Importing video and working with video clips; 5.1 surround sound; Keyboard shortcuts. Edit, mix, record, and restore audio. Audition is a comprehensive toolset that includes multitrack, waveform, and spectral display for creating, mixing, editing, and restoring audio content. This powerful audio workstation is designed to accelerate video production workflows and audio finishing — and deliver a polished mix with pristine sound.
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Recording Audio
You can record audio files in Audition directly. You’ll need to go to File > New > Audio File (Shift + Cmd + N), which will create a new audio file. Then to record onto this audio file, you’ll need to hit record at the bottom and record what you want, then click Record again or Stop to stop recording.
Trimming Files
During your recording, you may have coughed or said “ummm” too many times, so you will defeintly need to remove them. There are two ways of doing this.
The first way is simply highlighting the section of audio you want to remove, and then pressing Delete on your keyboard. The only problem with this method is that you might hear a jump in the audio where you cut a bit out. This method is generally more useful for removing things at the beginning or end of your recording.
The second way is to select the Razor Tool (R) in the top toolbar. You can use this to make a cut before and after the part of audio you want to remove. Then select the chunk of audio you’ve cut out, and press Delete on your keyboard to get rid of it.
Adding Audio Files
To add in audio files, you can either drag and drop them into the little library box, drag them directly onto the timeline, or click the Upload Media button (It just looks like a little file!).
You can then add these to whatever track you like in the Multitrack Session by dragging and dropping them where you want them.
Multitrack Sessions
This is where you will do the bulk of your editing. You’ll need to open a new Multitrack Session by going to File > New > Multitrack Session (Cmd + N) or just clicking the Multitrack button at the top.
In the Multitrack area you can see there are quite a few tracks, and you can think of these as layers. This is how you will layer music underneath talking, for example. For this example, we’re going to be layering Music, Speech and a Sound Effect.
In this area, you can drag your audio files around to make them play out exactly when you want them to. For example, this will be the introduction to our podcast, so we have the host briefly introducing the episode, followed by the opening jingle, then a sound effect of a telephone, then the host continuing the episode.
Ducking Volume and Panning Sounds
What about adjusting the volume of music so it sits under the host talking? Or adjusting an interview piece so one person is on the right and the other on the left when you listen with headphones? Well, you can do that in Multitrack too!
This yellow line is the clips volume gain. Using this you can adjust the volume easily, making it fade in and out. Click wherever you want on the line to add in a Keyframe. Think of these like pins. Then slightly further down the line, we’ll add another Keyframe, then click and drag this one down. This now means that the volume will follow the line, getting quieter as the line goes down.
The white/grey line is the Panning on the clip. This line determines whether the clip will sound more on the left, right or centre. You can add Keyframes to this too to pan the audio from left to right, with left being up and right being down.
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This tutorial will show you how to record and edit audio in Adobe Audition for podcast projects.
Before you can record in Audition, you will first need to select the input source for the track that you would like to use. In this case, when using the Podcast template, you can use the Host track as your main recording track.
Click the double arrows button above the track name panels to access the input/output selections.
To set the input for the track, first look at the track name panel. In the middle of the track name panel, right under the volume controls for the track, you will see the input selection, indicated by an arrow pointing to the right, with None as the default selection.
This is where the input source will be set. To select your microphone, click the arrow on the right side and then select the microphone that you would like to use. For recording your voice, we suggest that you use the Mono input if available.
Now that you have the input selected, you will need to arm the track to be ready to record. To do this, look at the track name and in the right hand corner of the name you should see three buttons labeled M, S, and R. Click the R button to arm the track to record.
Now you are ready to record. To begin, simply click the red Record button located below the tracks.
As you record, you will see your audio come into the track in red.
When finished, simply click the stop button below the tracks.
You can start and stop periodically, and then edit out the breaks, to get a smoother recording.
If you need to edit your recording, you can use the Blade tool to cut any part of your recording up to make changes. In this example, let’s assume you needed to delete a section of audio that you are not happy with.
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First, you will need to select the blade tool. This icon looks like a razor blade and is located at the top of the interface.
Once selected, you can simply click on the track you would like to edit to at the time that you’d like to cut the track at. In this case, two cuts will be made so that you can delete the middle section out of the project.
Once you’ve made your cuts, before you can delete the section in the middle, you will need to switch from using the blade tool to the Move tool. This tool is located directly to the left of the Blade tool at the top menu.
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Now you can select the section that you’d like to get rid of, and press the Delete key on your keyboard to remove it.
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To get rid of the gap in-between the two pieces, simply click and drag the clip and move it to the end of the first clip.